TRANSITION OF THE CROATIAN ADMINISTRATIVE ELITE FROM THE HABSBURG MONARCHY TO THE YUGOSLAV STATE<\/p>\n
\nAt the end of the 19th and in the early 20th century an important part of the Croatian social elite were high-level administrative officials of the Land Government and members of its subsidiary offices, as well as leading officials in eight Croatian counties. The latter part of the elite inherited a kind of social exclusiveness which was based on the long tradition of Croatian feudal society and municipal laws. Acting within the scope of state and legal autonomy, the Land Government, as the supreme governing authority in Croatia and Slavonia, together with the counties, districts and urban municipalities, represented the most significant institutions empowered by numerous officialdom.<\/p>\n
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In this study we will primarily analyse the position of members of state administrative elite consisting of great county prefects, as well as certain heads of government departments, offices and institutes. As the highest professional officer of the county administration, the great county prefect is a confidant of the government, responsible for overseeing the entire administration and self-government in the county. For his work he reported to the Land Government in Zagreb. He was appointed on the proposal by Ban. In any case, the institution of the great county prefect provided equally the interest of the Viennese court, as well as the Hungarian ruling circles. While in the early 20th century most county prefects were conservative individuals associated with the ideology of the People’s Party (unionists), after the Croatian-Serbian coalition came to power some county prefects accepted the political ideas of the “new course”. The situation changes drastically during the First World War, and the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was followed by the process of the abolition of counties. In this interregnum great county prefects were replaced by confidants of S. Pribi\u0107evi\u0107 with the task of conducting the centralization and unitarization of the state and the abolition of the Provincial Administration of Croatia and Slavonia in 1924.<\/p>\n
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The First World War and the Croatian accession to the new state union must have been a very traumatic experience for this elite. With the help of literature and archival sources, we will explore how the administrative elite handled this transition. The study should also provide an answer to the question of how the political situation affected the loyalty of great county prefects and other members of the state administrative elite towards the regime; who in the new state used his professional experience to hold a high position and whether national orientation was one of the criteria for the function; whether the new regime treated the members of the administrative elite of the former state as traitors and if therefore individuals had to flee abroad; which matters were dealt with by those who remained in the local environment, and the like. By applying the method of case studies we will analyse individual members of this group from different perspectives in order to arrive at lasting conclusions about the Croatian administrative elite in that period.<\/p>\n
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TRANZICIJA HRVATSKE UPRAVNO-ADMINISTRATIVNE ELITE IZ HABSBUR\u0160KE MONARHIJE U JUGOSLAVENSKU DR\u017dAVU<\/p>\n
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Na kraju 19. i po\u010detkom 20. stolje\u0107a va\u017ean dio hrvatske dru\u0161tvene elite \u010dinili su pripadnici visokog upravno-administrativnog \u010dinovni\u0161tva Zemaljske vlade i njezinih pomo\u0107nih ureda te vode\u0107i \u010dinovnici u osam hrvatskih \u017eupanija. Potonji dio elite ba\u0161tinio je i svojevrsnu dru\u0161tvenu ekskluzivnost koja se temeljila na dugoj tradiciji hrvatskog stale\u0161kog dru\u0161tva i municipalnih prava. Djeluju\u0107i unutar opsega dr\u017eavno-pravne autonomije Zemaljska vlada, kao vrhovna upravna vlast u Hrvatskoj i Slavoniji, zajedno sa \u017eupanijama, kotarima i gradskim op\u0107inama, predstavljale su najzna\u010dajnije institucije iza kojih je stajalo brojno \u010dinovni\u0161tvo.
\nU ovoj studiji analizirat \u0107e se prvenstveno polo\u017eaj pripadnika upravno-administrativne elite koju \u010dine veliki \u017eupani, ali i pojedini predstojnici vladinih odjela, ureda i zavoda. Kao najvi\u0161i profesionalni \u010dinovnik \u017eupanijske uprave, veliki \u017eupan je vladin pouzdanik, zadu\u017een za nadzor cijele uprave i samouprave u \u017eupaniji. Za svoj rad odgovarao je Zemaljskoj vladi u Zagrebu. Njega je na prijedlog bana imenovao vladar. U svakom slu\u010daju, institucija velikog \u017eupana osiguravala je podjednako interes be\u010dkog dvora, ali i ma\u0111arskih vladaju\u0107ih krugova. Dok su po\u010detkom 20. stolje\u0107a ve\u0107ina velikih \u017eupana konzervativni pojedinci, povezani s ideologijom Narodne stranke (unionisti), dolaskom na vlast Hrvatsko-srpske koalicije, pojedini \u017eupani prihva\u0107aju politi\u010dke ideje \u201enovoga kursa\u201c. Situacija se drasti\u010dno mijenja tijekom Prvog svjetskog rata, a nakon stvaranja Kraljevine SHS uslijedio je proces ukidanja \u017eupanija. U tom interregnumu na mjesta velikih \u017eupana dolaze pouzdanici S. Pribi\u0107evi\u0107a sa zada\u0107om provedbe centralizacije i unitarizacije dr\u017eave i ukidanja Pokrajinske uprave za Hrvatsku i Slavoniju 1924.
\nPrvi svjetski rat i ulazak Hrvatske u novu dr\u017eavnu zajednicu za ovu je elitu zacijelo bilo veoma traumati\u010dno iskustvo. Uz pomo\u0107 literature i arhivskih izvora, istra\u017eit \u0107e se kako se u toj tranziciji upravna elita sna\u0161la. Istra\u017eivanje bi tako\u0111er trebalo dati odgovor na pitanje kako su politi\u010dke prilike utjecale na lojalnost velikih \u017eupana i drugih pripadnika upravno-administrativne elite spram re\u017eima; tko je u novoj dr\u017eavi iskoristio svoje profesionalno iskustvo kako bi obna\u0161ao visoku funkciju i je li pritom nacionalna orijentacija bila jedan od kriterija za funkciju; je li novi re\u017eim tretirao pripadnike upravne elite iz biv\u0161e dr\u017eave kao izdajnike i jesu li zbog toga pojedinci morali pobje\u0107i u inozemstvo; kojim poslovima su se bavili oni koji su ostali u lokalnoj sredini i sl. Primjenom metode studije slu\u010daja analizirat \u0107e se pojedini pripadnici ove skupine iz razli\u010ditih perspektiva kako bi se do\u0161lo do trajnijih spoznaja o hrvatskoj upravnoj eliti u spomenutom razdoblju.<\/p>\n
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TRANSITION OF THE CROATIAN ADMINISTRATIVE ELITE FROM THE HABSBURG MONARCHY TO THE YUGOSLAV STATE At the end of the 19th and in the early 20th century an important part of the Croatian social elite were high-level administrative officials of the Land Government and members of its subsidiary offices, as well as leading officials in … <\/p>\n